How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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